BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



Mr. Montagu Sharpe, Chairman, presided 

 at the Quarterly Meeting of the Council 

 held at No. 3, Hanover Square, on July 23rd, 

 1909, and there were also present : Mr. 

 Ernest Bell, Mr. J. L. Bonhote, Dr. Drewitt, 

 Miss Hall, Mr. Hastings Lees, Mrs. F. E. 

 Lemon, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, Captain Tailby, 

 Mrs. Visger, Mr. Meade Waldo, Mr. F. E. 

 Lemon (Hon. Secretary), and the Secretary 

 (Miss Gardiner). 



The Hon. Secretary s Report chronicled 

 the conviction of a Dover dealer for taking 

 a young Peregrine ; an interview at the Home 

 Office with regard to the interpretation of 

 certain clauses in Bird Protection Acts and 

 Orders ; the issue of Bird Protection Orders 

 for the Isle of Ely and Breconshire ; and the 

 giving of lectures at Bristol (Mr. H. V. 

 Webb), Sprow,ton School (Mr. F. Balls), 

 Castle Bytham (Rev. H. Cotton Smith), and 

 Weybridge (Rev. J. E. Kelsall). 



The Finance and General Purposes Com- 

 mittee presented the accounts for the quarter, 

 showing a deficit on the Watchers' Fund and 

 a balance on the general account, but 

 against this several accounts for payment 

 were passed. The appointment of Mr. H. B. 

 Turney as Hon. Local Secretary for Ulverston 

 was ratified. The following Fellows were 

 elected :— David M. Bell (Belfast), Herbert 

 W. Brett (Rochester), H. G. Buxton (Swaff- 

 ham), D. Leighton Chapman (London, S.E.), 

 Mrs. Graves Colles (Minchinhampton), Dr. 

 Drewitt (London, W.), Mrs. Turnbull (Ash- 

 bourne, Derby), Mrs. Wilkin (Tenterden). 



Twenty-two Members were elected, as 

 under : — 



The Lady Willoughby de Broke, Miss Winifred 

 Austen (London, W.), Mrs. Cecil Beeching (Maid- 

 stone), Mrs. A. K. Bulley (Neston), Mrs. Cooke- 

 Taylor (Chepstow), Charles W. Chitty (Dover), 

 Edward Darvall (Barrow-on-Soar), W. B. Farr 

 (Abingdon, Northants), Mrs. Hamilton Fletcher, 



Garett Fletcher, Mervyn Fletcher (Sherborne), 

 L. C. Gibbs (Flax Bourton), Mrs. Martin Gibbs 

 (Flax Bourton), Miss J. Hamshar (Hassocks), Mrs. 

 Howard (Corby Castle). Mrs. H. Venables Kyrke 

 (Nantyffrith, Wrexham), Patrick Murray (Edin- 

 burgh), Miss Lily Prince (South Brent), Miss 

 Muriel Sands (Eastbourne), Mrs. Seward (Cam- 

 bridge), Miss Marshall Saunders (Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia), Mrs. Lily Tarleton (Kew). 



The Committee reported that the Society 

 was represented by two delegates on the 

 Animal Protection Section of the Inter- 

 national Animal Protection and Anti- Vivi- 

 section Congress, held in London July 6th to 

 10th. Papers contributed by Mr. Bell and by 

 the Secretary of the R.S.P.B. were presented, 

 and will appear in the Proceedings ; a reso- 

 lution was passed calling for international 

 legislation for the protection of migrating 

 birds and in regard to the importation of 

 feathers for millinery. The Society also had 

 a stall for literature, etc., which enabled its 

 representatives to make the work better 

 known to members of societies in Den- 

 mark, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, and other 

 countries, as well as to English visitors. The 

 Bird and Tree (Arbor Day) exhibits attracted 

 much attention. 



The Publication Committee reported that 

 Miss Winifred Austen had kindly promised 

 to paint a picture of bird-life for the 

 Society's Christmas card ; and a vote of 

 thanks was passed to Miss M. Gardiner, for 

 her sketches of the Society's new offices in 

 the summer number of Bird Notes and 

 News. 



General Business. — The Plumage Bill (No. 

 2), introduced into the House of Commons 

 by Mr. J. R. Macdonald, and the Close Time 

 (Snipe and Woodcock) Bill, introduced by Sir 

 F. Banbury, were considered by the Council. 

 Arrangements were made for the judging of 

 the Bird and Tree Essays from schools. The 

 lecture campaign for the winter season was 

 discussed. Mr. C. L. Barrett, of Melbourne, 



